#tommorrisit would be spectacularly useful if APIs like Twitter (and FB) would let you set them into "test" mode, which would let you call them, and they'd do everything they actually do, but don't actually publish the data to your feed for real. put a big marker next to the posts that says "FAKE POST" or something.
#tommorristhat way you could bollocks things up without annoying hundreds or thousands of people.
#aaronpkwhen I connected FB I could have checked the "only visible to me" option for the twitter posts
#tommorrisI know MediaWiki API has the ability to do that. there's some parameter you can pass which basically is like a "dry run" mode. so you can test out complicated stuff and it returns everything it should do, but doesn't actually write the result to the DB
#aaronpkcool. changed IFTTT to be only visible to me when it posts.
#tommorrisI've written a Wikipedia bot that requires on some asynchronous queue processing (it's downloading articles for processing while other things are uploading) etc. and being able to dry run it i suseful.
#Loqitommorris meant to say: I've written a Wikipedia bot that relies on some asynchronous queue processing (it's downloading articles for processing while other things are uploading) etc. and being able to dry run it i suseful.
#tommorrisI really wish regexes were properly specced out, such that you could take a regex, compile it, get back a consistent parse tree, and then test that parse tree against implementations to see which features are implemented.
#aaronpkI think they would both be about the same for compatibility, because they're both lookbehinds, the difference is positive vs negative
#aaronpktommorris' might be faster because there is one less component
#tantekaaronpk - odd, I'm getting a JS syntax error with that regex
#tommorrisnow that Node exists, I'm so tempted to make a regex tester that lets you put a regex and some sample strings in and it tests them using the regex engines in Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java and .NET.
#tantekand screw it - I'm adding another special case of not linking @-references in addition to the CSS set (@import @media @font @font-face @namespace @page @charset)
#tommorrisI'm tempted to do some kind of link substitution thing by having a database which pulls from the Twitter API to translate links to Twitter usernames.
#tommorrisSo if I type <a href="http://tantek.com/">Tantek</a>, it replaces it with @t when it sends it to Twitter
#@ralphmercerI would pay money for an open, no advertisement web, but never to be walled in by proprietary platforms.. #ownyourdata
#tantektommorris - I think aaronpk's setup does that.
#tantekIG does that as well, that is, it translates IG @-references to Twitter @-references when cross-posting, if the person @-referenced has linked their twitter account to their IG account.
#aaronpktommorris: I do it the other way around. I type @t or @tantek on my site, and it links to twitter by default, or if there is a record in users.txt, links to their domain with a little icon
#tommorrisSo, on that Lanyrd post, I initially did <a href="http://lanyrd.com/">@Lanyrd</a>, then just edited it to remove the @.
#tantekaaronpk - it should work either way, regardless of what you as the user type (Postel's law and all that ;) )
#tommorrisI just read Sumanah's keynote at OSB2012, and it reminded me of when I met her in Israel and she said something along the lines of how getting participation starts with documenting the crap out of everything.
#tommorrisactually, I wonder: that's an interesting challenge. Come up with a tweet that packs as many potential rendering bugs into 140 characters as possible.
#tommorriscould actually be useful, if there was a Twitter account which just has fucked up potential rendering issues.
#tantekso the whole point of posting that asciibet tweet for me was so I'd have a quick an easy Helvetica reference accessible on my iPod for sketching from